Big Dot Painting

One of our favorite ways of painting is dot painting.  These dot markers are wonderful and J absolutely loves them!

It’s been beautiful around here lately, and I knew I wanted to do something outside with J today.  So, I laid out a large sheet of white paper and the dot markers on our back porch,  I left the rest of the activity up to J.

All the caps must come off first.  See those fine motor skills at work?

A few dots were made.

And then the cars made an appearance.  J kept running the cars through the small paint dots and he liked the small lines the wheels made.  So, I made a few large circles with the paint so he could make better tire marks. 

We also made some letters using stencils.  I had to help him hold the stencil down, but he made all the letters.
 

The caps make great blocks too!

I love activities like this where J can freely create however he wants.  It is so awesome to sit back and watch to see what he comes up with.

Today we:

• Practiced fine motor skills with twisting on and off the caps and stacking them.
• Worked on gross motor skills through crawling on the ground, stamping the paints, and playing with cars.
• Focused on color recognition.
• Learned new letters.
• Practiced words like, stamp, stencil, roll, and stack,

Have you ever used these dot markers?  How do your kid’s play with them?